Improved medical compound



time gem Letters Patent No. 90,308, dated May 18, 1869.

IIVIPROVED MEDICAL COMPOUND.

The Bc'nedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EVANS ROBINSON, of Fail-port, in the county ofMonroe, and State of New York, haveinventcd a certain new and improvedMedical Gompound; and I do hereby declare that the following is a fulland exact description thereof.

This medicine is intended for dysentery, cholera, diarrhma, and othersimilar bowel-complaints, and is made up of the following elements, inthe proportions substantially as named:

For one gallon of the sirup, take, of Turkey rhubarb, one ounce; goldenseal, one ounce; nutmeg, two ounces; cinnamon, two ounces; cloves, twoounces. Pulverize finely, and steep, in a cloth bag, three hours, inthree quarts of water. Strain, and add six pounds of loaf-sugar. Bringto a scalding heat; cool, and add, saleratus, one ounce; essencepeppermint, one ounce; laudanum, one-half ounce; tincture capsicum,one.- balf ounce; best French brandy, one quart.

Some of these elements are in well-known use in medicines for action onthe bowels, such, for instance, as rhubarb, laudanum, and brandy. I donot claim these broadly, but only the combination with them of the otherparts named, which combination, as a whole, I believe to be new.

' The object to be avoided is a too sudden check to the bowels, which isusually produced by the astringentmedicines now in use. For this reason,I combine, with the astringents, the mild cathartics and tonics, whichgradually purge, while they, at the same time, strengthen and heal. Thatthis composition acts in this way, I have tested by practice, and knowto be.

